On 20/09/13 19:20, Newmedia {AT} aol.com wrote:
> Nettime:
>
>> Citizens would grow up accustomed to having a public voice, to
>> receiving intellectual responses from others, and to articipating in
>> a global intellectual culture. The cultural conditions of democratic
>> intellectual life will have been achieved.
>
> Sorry (to Phil Agre) but this is nonsense.
>
> There is no "public." There is no "global intellectual culture." There
> are no "citizens (of the world)." There is no "democracy." There are
> no "morals."
>
> All we have is a *technological* environment
What part of the technological environment prompted you to apologise
twice in this email?
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